In front of the dragoons were two loaded cannon, and by them grimly stood soldiers with burning fuse.
The other dragoon, a strong, muscular man, had in the mean while laid hands on him.
Their leader stood fast, supported by three men, two of whom were dragoons, the third in dress and appearance a countryman, all well armed.
They had reached the outskirts of the village, where the dragoons had built their barricade.
Without opposing the departure of the carriages, the municipal authorities, whose suspicions had been in some measure aroused by the presence of the troops, ordered the dragoons not to quit the town, and they obeyed these orders.
Everyone is dragooned to perpetuate a division of labor based on one's access to the private means of production.
There was also a party of dragoons waiting nearby.
They were, along with the militia who were dragooned from their families and farms and were just as petulant, the least motivated and the first to abscond.
